Question about scope

[Tim Daneliuk]

I thought I understood python scoping, but I guess I don't.  Consider this
code:

FALSE = 0
TRUE = not FALSE
FLAG = TRUE

def FlagFalse():
	FLAG = FALSE

print str(FLAG)
FlagFalse()
print str(FLAG)

I get:
1
1

But I expected:
1
0

If I declare FLAG as global in the function, it works properly, of course.

I thought that python checked local scope for a variable first and if
it did not find it, it appealed to the local namespace.  What am I missing
here - it's probably at the end of my nose, but I cannot seem to make sense
of it...

TIA,
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Tim Daneliuk
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